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Food markets How to store and sell more stuff (19 November 04:09) |
| Poor places need more than seeds, fertiliser or even food science IF FOOD aid is epitomised by a single image, it is that of neat bags of grain, stamped with the Stars and Stripes and labell... |
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Feeding the world If words were food nobody would go hungry (19 November 04:09) |
| Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade“THE world’s attention is back on your cause.” That was Bill Gates talking to agricult... |
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The UN and corruption Extracting teeth and other things (12 November 04:33) |
| A new coalition campaigns to stop practitioners of graft paying the price TRY to work out what these states have in common: Algeria, Angola, China, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Venezuela a... |
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Drugs Virtually legal (12 November 04:33) |
| In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforceTHE Green Relief “natural health clinic” in ... |
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Religion and climate change Sounding the trumpet (05 November 04:31) |
| A link-up between faith and greenery brings unlikely people together ENVIRONMENTALISM is a hard corner to fight in Louisiana, a state where oil, gas and chemical companies are big in the eco... |
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Climate change and public opinion Not yet marching as to war (05 November 04:31) |
| Even as politicians and protesters gear up for a fateful climate-change meeting in Denmark, some of their fellow citizens have little stomach for a fight IF THE forthcoming United Nations me... |
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Public-service careers A tough search for talent (29 October 05:23) |
| In many rich countries, grooming young bureaucrats for a changing world is a struggle for their would-be bosses AGED 25 and armed with a master’s degree in water management, Andrew Ree... |
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The pros and cons of biofuels Ethanol tanks (22 October 07:32) |
| More suggestions that biofuels are not an environmental free lunchONCE upon a time, biofuels were thought of as a solution to fossil-fuel dependence. Now they are widely seen as a boondoggle... |
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War crimes and international justice Always get your man (22 October 04:13) |
| Bringing war criminals to justice is a slow business. But the net is wideningWHO, outside the Balkans, now remembers Radovan Karadzic? A hunted man for 13 years, the leader of Bosnia’s... |
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Dirty elections To the rigger the spoils (22 October 04:13) |
| New research on how many countries rig elections and whyHAMID KARZAI’S acceptance this week, through gritted teeth, of a run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential poll is a reminder ... |
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The Roman Catholic and Anglican churches Unleashing the Counter-Reformation (22 October 04:13) |
| The pope makes it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism en masse—but creates a rod for his own backSINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesth... |
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Abortion A bit better (15 October 04:18) |
| A new report on abortion offers glimmers of hopeOPPONENTS of abortion tend instinctively to favour discouraging it with as many legal restrictions as possible. But statistics from the other ... |
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Intersexuality A question of sex (15 October 04:18) |
| Sex is a complicated thing to defineAGREEING that the sports authorities were shabby, intrusive and untruthful in their handling of the case of Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African ... |
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Global-warming diplomacy Bangkok blues (15 October 04:18) |
| Gloom and pragmatism ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summitTHE planet is warming, but the mood among climate negotiators seems as chilly as ever. On October 9th the penultimate round ... |
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The Arctic Mirror mirror on the wall (08 October 04:17) |
| An icy conflict is far from inevitable, despite some heated talkAS ANY nine-year-old knows, the Mirror of Erised—featured in the Harry Potter books—is a magical looking-glass tha... |
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Micronutrients A no-brainer (08 October 04:17) |
| Tiny things whose absence causes a huge, but soluble, problem“THE food and financial crises have refocused the world on how we deal with nearly 1 billion people who go to bed hungry.&#... |
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Islam A shifting locus (08 October 04:17) |
| New data on the second-biggest faithWHEN Barack Obama made his appeal, back in June, for a new understanding between America and Islam, the venue he chose was Egypt—for some obvious re... |
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Migration and development The aid workers who really help (08 October 04:17) |
| How much do migrants, by sending remittances and other means, act as catalysts for development in the countries they leave behind?AS THE dust settled after the attacks of September 11th 2001... |
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Fuel subsidies Fossilised policy (01 October 04:34) |
| The G20 decides to end subsidies on fossil fuelsHOPEFUL activists branded the annual UN get-together of world leaders in New York starting on September 20th “Climate Week”. In th... |
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Extradition Succumb and deliver (01 October 04:34) |
| Extradition laws are getting tougher and tighter. But they remain messy, even if your name is not PolanskiIT IS a fair bet that if a humble Polish immigrant called, say, Pawel Romanski had s... |
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Farmland and climate change Seasonally adjusted (01 October 04:34) |
| Global warming will make it harder to feed the world in 2050SINCE time immemorial, farmers have planted their crops according to the seasons. “That is what my forefathers have been doi... |
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New missile defences in Europe Shooting down a plan (24 September 04:23) |
| America’s change of tack is placating some and worrying othersWHEN a blue-painted Sejjil missile streaked into the Persian skies in May, to calls of “Allahu Akbar” (God is ... |
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Russian and American arms cuts Leave the hard bits till last (24 September 04:23) |
| But a new treaty is worth havingTHEIR countries once used to glare at each other, nuclear triggers cocked. They still find plenty to disagree about. But when President Barack Obama and his R... |
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The Olympic games Ring quartet (24 September 04:23) |
| The first race in the Olympics is to decide which city hosts themOLYMPIC sport demands many years of preparation, and not just for the athletes. On October 2nd in Copenhagen the Internationa... |
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Developing countries and global warming A bad climate for development (17 September 05:29) |
| Poor countries’ economic development will contribute to climate change. But they are already its greatest victimsIN LATE April Mostafa Rokonuzzaman, a farmer in south-western Banglades... |
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Iran North Korea and the bomb Spinning dark new tales (10 September 04:07) |
| Something new to worry aboutHONESTY is a rare commodity in the nuclear underworld, where Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Syria and possibly others—as well as Argentina, Brazil, Libya and ... |
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Higher education and the recession It still pays to study (10 September 04:07) |
| Not the panacea it is billed as, but the best hope for this year’s school-leaversTHE law of supply and demand tells you that increasing the quantity of something tends to reduce its pr... |
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UNESCOs leadership A race or a death-wish (10 September 04:07) |
| An unlikely candidate adds to questions about an agency’s will to live IF AN American talk-radio host wanted to cook up some tale that would blacken the name of the United Nations for ... |
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UNESCO and World Heritage Sites The limits of soft cultural power (10 September 04:07) |
| Guarding precious and vulnerable places is one of the better things the UN’s cultural agency does—but it may topple over if it stretches too far ANYONE who dreams of exercising a... |
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Child welfare The nanny state (03 September 04:16) |
| Lavish public spending on the well-being of children does not always hit the mark WHEN the poet William Wordsworth declared that “the Child is father of the Man”, he meant that t... |
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Journalists in jail The price of truth (03 September 04:16) |
| For reporters, a moment of fear SRI LANKA was always a hard place for hacks; but by any standards, 20 years’ jail is a harsh penalty for a newsman doing his job. That term was meted ou... |
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Charles Taylor on trial Man of peace man of war (27 August 04:14) |
| The former president of Liberia, and indicted war criminal, takes the standIN A small courtroom on the upper floor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) building in The Hague, closed off... |
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Refugee trends Lost in limbo (27 August 04:14) |
| There may be fewer refugees, but their problems are getting harder to solveTHE global stock of refugees, those who escape war or persecution by crossing a border, has steadily shrunk in rece... |
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Piracy and private enterprise Splashing and clashing in murky waters (20 August 04:29) |
| Private security firms are increasingly involved in the fight against pirates. The allocation of tasks between them and navies needs some thought OF THE dozens of ships recently captured by ... |
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The Lockerbie decision A long shadow (20 August 04:29) |
| A controversial decision to release a Libyan prisonerTHE bombing that blew up Pan Am flight 103 in the sky above Lockerbie, a small Scottish town, on December 21st 1988, was the worst terror... |
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The Geneva conventions at 60 Unleashing the laws of war (13 August 04:57) |
| The chasm is still too wide between noble Swiss ideas and the hard reality of locations where war is hellWALK the calm, well-heeled streets of Geneva and there seems little to connect this m... |
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The trouble with nuclear fuel Struggling to hold up a bank (06 August 04:24) |
| When narrow national interests obstruct a noble causePAVED it may be with good intentions, but there are many twists and pot-holes along the road to a nuclear-free world. So many, in fact, t... |
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A bold Muslim voice From harsh terrain (06 August 04:24) |
| We should love heretics, not kill them, says an unconventional scholar ON THE face of things, Sudan is stony ground for Islamic reformers. It is a country where allegations of apostasy—... |
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Egypt and global Islam The battle for a religions heart (06 August 04:24) |
| In an ideological contest between radicals, populists and moderates, speaking out can still carry a heavy personal cost WHICH trend will prevail among the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims&#... |
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The centre-left The challenge of turning malcontents into sensible militants (30 July 04:41) |
| pIn most of Europe moderate leftists are having a bad recession8212but things look more promising for them elsewherepp WHEN George Papandreou the Greek opposition leader and president of the... |
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Radio propaganda Crackles of hatred (23 July 04:22) |
| pSilencing murderous messages is not as easy as it soundspp LAST year as Kenya slid into mayhem the words that sputtered forth from crude transmitters were cryptic but to those in the know h... |
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Establishing peace Blue briefcases (23 July 04:22) |
| pAfter the peacekeepers come the peacebuilders But they are strugglingppIT DOES not take very much to stoke the embers of a conflict especially if peace has come about not on its own through... |
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Responsibility to protect An idea whose time has come8212and gone (23 July 04:22) |
| pAn idealistic effort to establish a new humanitarian principle is coming under attack at the United Nationspp GARETH EVANS a former Australian foreign minister and roving global troubleshoo... |
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The rights of Arctic peoples: Not a barren country (16 July 04:00) |
| More political powers for the indigenous people of the Arctic could soon be matched by more economic cloutTHE crowds in Nuuk, Greenland’s pretty coastal capital, marked the devolution... |
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The rights of Arctic peoples Not a barren country (16 July 04:00) |
| p More political powers for the indigenous people of the Arctic could soon be matched by more economic cloutppTHE crowds in Nuuk Greenland8217s pretty coastal capital marked the devolution o... |
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Green.view: Lines in the sand (13 July 01:27) |
| Climate change could ignite wars in the world's most volatile regionsTHE Matterhorn, an iconic emblem of the Alps, has two peaks: one on its Swiss side and one on its Italian side. Between t... |
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Greenview Lines in the sand (13 July 01:27) |
| pClimate change could ignite wars in volatile regionsppTHE Matterhorn an iconic emblem of the Alps has two peaks one on its Swiss side and one on its Italian side Between them the boundary s... |
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Climate change talks: Wanted: fresh air (09 July 04:37) |
| Poor countries wrangle with rich ones about who can burn what and whenWHEN argument fails, try metaphor. Shyam Saran, who heads India’s international negotiating team on climate change... |
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A cyber-warfare mystery: Ghost in the machine (09 July 04:37) |
| When is a cyber-attack a real one?AMERICA and other countries still have to fine-tune their cyber-defences to distinguish mere nuisances from real menaces. That, rather than any revelations ... |
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Faith, economics and ecology: New sins, new virtues (09 July 04:37) |
| As the world heats up and economic dislocation ravages the poor, religious leaders offer up their diagnoses and prescriptions GLOBALISATION, technology and growth are in themselves neither p... |
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